Okay, last month I had VERY little to work with, but here we have bioarxiv for Indoeuropean populations. Big fez-tip to Razib Khan for 'splaining this to us genecels.
Italo-Celtic[-Lusitanian] is Corded Ware, aligned with Battle Axe in the German forests and, by male genes, R1b. This paper is saying Greek and Armenian came str8 outta da steppe. I assume that for Armenian, whose attestation is poor before their Grabar Bible, the paper has strained out all that Parthian and, before them, Cimmerian which meanwhile supplanted their whole ruling class. Greece, especially the islands, didn't have that little problem.
One surprise: the linguistic precursor of Armenian was introduced to the Caucasus by the end of the 5th millennium BP.
That's 2050 BC. That might agree with the earlier, less-documented collapse of the Ur III and Fifth Dynasty Egypt, known to be a difficult time. What 2050 BC is not is the collapse of the earliest twelfth century BC. So the Armenians were already living in the Caucasus, presumably around Trabzon and what's now the southern Georgia coast, where we now find the Mingrelians.
Quite a claim. Why isn't Armenian in the Hittite ritual-texts? Hurrians and Urartians in the way? (Same goes for Phrygian, still.)
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